This year we had many year five and six children turn up to our first couple of hui/meetings to begin our Health Busters team. They were excited and keen to begin 2019 with student voice in leading our health and well-being initiatives we already have in place. Go for it Malfroy!

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Hikoi 2 School Day

Our first duty this year is to promote the Rotorua Lakes Council led "walk to kura" day. This will be happening on Friday 22nd March at the following locations:

Ford Road Shops, Jervis Road Shops and Pererika Road Shops at 8.15am.

We encourage all parents/caregivers to jump onboard the 'walking bus' or even drop your child off at one of the closest locations to leave at 8.15am. Teachers will be there from 8.00am.

Gold Accreditation for Malfroy School!

It is with great pleasure that I announce that Malfroy School has officially attained their Health Promoting Schools Gold Accreditation!

Health Promoting Schools (HPS) is an internationally recognised framework utilised in over 50 countries which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of school communities through a whole of school approach.

Toi Te Ora runs a unique HPS accreditation scheme across the Bay of Plenty and Lakes which helps participating schools develop and implement effective health and wellbeing strategies, and then recognises their efforts following an assessment against a set of criteria. The accreditation scheme is implemented into three accreditation standards; bronze, silver and gold. By the time a school attains gold, HPS is fully embedded into the school’s culture, key documentation, strategic planning, monitoring and review systems. (https://www.toiteora.govt.nz/news_and_events/id/1148)

Malfroy School has been working hard since beginning in 2009. We have introduced healthy food options for lunches on two days of the week and also continue to provide healthy breakfasts with the help of Kids Can. Other initiatives that we have embedded at Malfroy are physical activity through our student led lunch-times sports activities, anti-bullying strategies and Sunsmart awareness.